New Books in Military History
Peter Hitchens, “The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion” (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
Peter Hitchens
The Phoney Victory
The World War II Illusion
I.B. Tauris, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 12, 2018 Charles Coutinho

Was World War II really the ‘Good War’? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations, especially the United Kingdom. In his newest book, The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion (I.B. Tauris, 2018), writer... Read More
Daniel Siemens, “Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts” (Yale UP, 2017)
Daniel Siemens
Stormtroopers
A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts
Yale University Press, 2017

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 26, 2018 Craig Sorvillo

In his new book, Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts (Yale University Press, 2017, Daniel Siemens, professor of European history at Newcastle University, writes a comprehensive history of the SA, from the early 1920s until Nazi Germany’s total defeat in 1945. Siemens demonstrates how the SA evolved from a small... Read More
Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, “The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe
Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network November 26, 2018 Maia Woolner

The prologue to The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War (University of Chicago Press, 2018) begins by provocatively invoking a question American physiologist Walter Cannon first asked in 1926: “Why don’t we die daily?” In the erudite chapters that follow, Stefanos Geroulanos and... Read More
Erin Stewart Mauldin, “Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Erin Stewart Mauldin
Unredeemed Land
An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 9, 2018 Brian Hamilton

The antebellum South was on the road to agricultural ruin, and the Civil War put a brick on the gas pedal. In Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South (Oxford University Press, 2018), a sweeping reassessment of some of the oldest questions in... Read More
Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” (Harper, 2018)
Max Hastings
Vietnam
An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
HarperCollins, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network November 6, 2018 Marshall Poe

People of various political stripes in many countries (particularly those countries where various political stripes are allowed) have been arguing about the Vietnam War for a long time. The participants in these debates were (and are) always quick to assign blame in what seems to be an endless attempt to... Read More

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